The authorities of Abkhazia denied the reports of the Georgian media that in the forest in the village of Kohra of the Galsky district, a forest caught fire due to explosion on the Russian military base. “There are no Russian military at all in the village of Kohra at all,” the press secretary of the Emergency Situations of Abkhazia Levon Galustyan said on Wednesday Interfax .

The increased activity of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin forced the Kremlin to change the PR tactics so that President Dmitry Medvedev would not lag behind the second participant in the power tandem. The head of state now focuses on high -profile system initiatives. Experts regard the last steps of both as the beginning of election campaigns. Putin has recently made many extravagant finds, promoting the image of the charismatic authoritarian leader, the “Independent Gazeta” notes.

The twenty-third Moscow International Book Exhibition-Fair (MMKVVI) opened in the Pavilion of 75 of the All-Russian Exhibition Center in Moscow on Wednesday, ITAR-TASS reports. As the head of Rospechat, Mikhail Ceslavinsky, said at the opening of the fair, in an exhibition occupying 30 thousand square meters, are participated in 1,500 publishers, which offer 200 thousand items of books in different languages ​​of the world. The honorary guest of the current exhibition-fair was Belarus.

US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates believes that stories have yet to judge if the seven -year war in Iraq the price that America paid for it was worth the American newspaper New York Times .

The article in The Financial Times on the possible purchasing of Su-27 fighters in Belarus in order for the pilots of other countries to be able to deal with them, is nothing more than a "newspaper duck", Igor Korotchenko, director of the Center for World Trade Analysis (TsAMTO), told RIA Novosti .

Three years after the early departure of Tony Blair from the post of head of the Government of the United Kingdom, the book of his memoirs arrives on September 1 to the shelves of British stores. The named "Wandering" (Journey), she talks about the conquest in May 1997 after a long break of power by the Labor Party and the Blair prestige, which followed the ten years, ITAR-TASS reports.

The famous theater and cinema actress Tatyana Dogileva was hospitalized on Tuesday in one of the Moscow clinics with an attack of acute pain, reports Newsru Israel with reference to Life News . Ambulance doctors who arrived on the call of the actress made a preliminary diagnosis: an attack of appendicitis. Tatyana Dogilev was taken to the hospital and conducted an examination that did not confirm the initial diagnosis.

Pavel Chernov, Deputy Minister of Transport and Roads of Tatarstan, driving an Audi car assigned to the ministry, shot down a 14-year-old schoolgirl Alina Iskakova. Iskakova, crossing the yeast on a bicycle, received multiple fractures, a concussion and a hematoma of the brain. The victim for about a week was in a coma. Now she has come into consciousness, but she can’t speak yet.

Nine out of ten Germans they wish the country a new economic order in which the importance of the social sphere and ecology would exceed the importance of accumulating material values, the Russian German newspaper writes with reference to the sociological survey of the Institute for Public Opinion of TNS Emnid, conducted by order of the Bermunman socio-political fund.

The Yalchik District Court of Chuvashia began to consider a criminal case on charges of 47-year-old Alexei Grigoryev of the murder of the abbot of the temple in the village of Yantikovo Father Anatoly, the press service of the SU SCP of the Russian Federation for Chuvashia reports. He is charged with Part 1 of Art. 222 (illegal storage, transportation and wearing of weapons), part 1 of Art. 105 (murder) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and part 1 of Art.

US President Barack Obama officially announced the completion of hostilities in Iraq. “Today I am announcing that the US fighting in Iraq has been completed,” he said in a television appeal to the nation on the occasion of the withdrawal of all American combat units from this Arab country.

The first snow fell in the Czech Republic. A thin fluffy carpet covered the top of the ore mountains and the Krkonosh mountains in the west and north of the republic on the last summer day. The mercury column of the thermometer sank there to zero degrees. In most of the Czech territory, the air temperature ranges from four to fourteen degrees today, ITAR-TASS reports.

The Swedish prosecutor's office decided to resume the investigation of the case against the founder of the WikiLeaks site Julian Assange, accused of attempts to rape and sexual harassment. The chief prosecutor of Sweden Marianne Nyu announced the beginning of a preliminary investigation of the resumed case against Assange, the Air Force reports.

World wheat prices over the summer have already risen so much that now, most likely, they will decline. This opinion is shared by Evgeny Weinberg, head of the analytical department in the commercial markets of Commerzbank. Despite the recent sharp rise in the cost of grain, in developed countries this fall, there will be no significant changes in the prices for bakery products, the Finmarket agency reports with reference to the Nemktsky wave.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev made personnel changes in the Ministry of the Interior, Interfax reports. The President signed a decree on the dismissal of the head of the criminal investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, the police colonel General Iskandar Galimzyanovich Galimov, the statement published on the Kremlin’s website on Tuesday.